Vol 2 Chapter 1093: ?Bastion Fireplace

The train continued to drive north, and now the windowpanes showed a thick, sticky gray, and gradually deepened, until the lights in the corridor and on the luggage rack were all on. The train was swaying, the rain was knocking on the windows, and the wind was getting stronger and stronger.
　　 The train seemed to slow down when he saw the mountains and woods under the deep purple sky.
"We are finally arriving." Ron, who returned to Harry's box after the tour, took his gaze away from the chocolate ball that Freig had eaten. "I'm starving to death. I want to eat a big meal... I hope Alan will not Remove the chicken legs from the menu..."
　　 "No." Ginny lay on the window and looked out: "This is not Hogwarts... Why did the car stop?"
　　 "Then why did it stop?" Ron asked strangely, "What happened?"
　　 Harry looked at the mechanical watch in his hand: "You won't encounter any dementors to check again..."
The train went slower and slower, the sound of the wheels became quieter, and a male-female voice echoed on the train: "The train will arrive at the new Hogwarts platform in three minutes. Please leave your luggage on the train. We Will be sent to school for you."
　　 "Fortunately, the rain basically stopped." Ginny happily retracted her head from the window, "Ron, we have to check the carriage to see if the little wizard has fallen asleep and got off the car."
　　 "Don't bother me, there will be other prefects." Ron waved his hand impatiently, ignored Ginny, and beckoned Harry and them to get out of the car. The cold at night made everyone shiver.
　　 The train slowed down faster, and finally stopped. The passengers shoved and shoved, rushing to the door, and descending to a newly built platform, which was much more elegant than the black and small before.
　　 After seeing the scenery, Harry and the others walked out with the crowd. Turning a corner and leaving the platform, a huge wall suddenly appeared in front of them, built right next to the station.
"This is the boundary of Hogwarts' previous expansion plan?" Neville, holding his unwillingness to move, probed his brain in those empty pits with no end in sight. "There are all brackets inside... this is really deep enough. ."
"The railroad is here? There is no railroad anymore... The previous platform was changed to this far from Hogwarts?" Dean Thomas complained, "We can't make the dinner in the carriage... "
"Let me see where Hogwarts is... I didn't even see the Black Lake." Seamer looked around, his mouth wide open, and he said blankly, "Are the shadows in front of this city wall? It's weird..."
　　 Then some fluorescent flashes light up from the side of the wall, and some figures in robes walked over: "Students at Hogwarts, please come here!"
　　 Seeing someone's guidance, this made the little wizards who didn't know the way because it was different from the previous years, relieved.
　　 Harry noticed that the Aurors who were in charge of guarding Hogwarts in H94 uniforms had disappeared without a trace. Instead, they were similar to their little wizards, except that the color scheme was black wizards wearing ancient protective robes.
　　 "Who are these people? Or did the Aurors of the Ministry of Magic change their outfits again?" Justin Finley gave Ernie McMillan next to him with his arm.
"Don't see the umbrella logo? The necklace hanging on the outside of the robe is also the symbol of omniscience? That is the armed forces of the umbrella..." Ernie McMillan raised his arm and pointed, and then put it on Justin Finley's On his shoulder, "Hogwarts has no Aurors...I guess Ai...I guess Headmaster Harris wants to completely de-Magic Hogwarts."
　　 "But isn't the Ministry of Magic also controlled by Principal Harris's house?" Justin was a little confused. He understood what Ernie said, but he didn't understand why Principal Harris wanted to do this.
　　 "Let's just leave it alone anyway." Ernie McMillan shook his head. He didn't know why.
Under the leadership of the umbrella staff, the little wizards walked along the spacious stone road on the very flat platform, crossing a huge arched porch, and after arriving at the platform, they needed to follow a steep path. Compared with the narrow path, stumbling down in the dark to the night carriage, the treatment of the wizards was completely different this time.
The crowd came out of the platform, and the wizards cheered and talked with excitement. The platform was built on a relatively high terrain. Harry looked over the fenced wall, and a very magnificent scene appeared in front of them. The city wall was not enclosed in a square shape, but was built into a prismatic shape one after another, and the converging point of the wall and the wall formed a very sharp point.
　　 A triangular fortress was stacked on top of the city wall, and a very wide trench was built in front of the city wall. These defensive walls are very thick and very tall. They are made of hard rock covered with metal guards carved with runes. They look unusually strong and majestic.
　　 And outside the city wall, there is a section of the trenches outside the flat open space, which looks like a circle of gaps and trenches opened outside the city.
"Is this a bastion?" Fleige yelled, noting the eyes of the wizards around him, "This is a construction method of ancient Muggle fortresses... The essence is to change the city from a convex polygon to a concave polygon. This improvement makes it possible to expose the attacker to more than one bastion face regardless of any point of the attack on the castle, and the defender can use cross firepower for multiple strikes."
"But I don't understand. It's so far away from the school. Why build a city wall here? What's the use of this?" Ginny pulled Harry's arm, "Is the range for prohibiting apparitions going to be so far in the future? ?"
"It's too far from the Hogwarts residential area, and it's the first time I've been here." Harry was asked, and he estimated the distance in his heart. He found that it was the first time he saw such a magnificent building. "I don't even think about it. If it surrounds the entire Hogwarts expansion area and pulls all the British wizards on it, it will be unsatisfactory?"
"Why must it be useful?" Ron leaned against the wall, a little proud. "Let me say, Allen is showing his financial resources, whether he is useful or not, the world's largest magic school is not in Africa. Vagado is Hogwarts."
"Children, don't forget the super strong iron armor curse shield..." An umbrella wizard who guided the children heard their discussion and spoke with some pride. "This wall is actually covered with many nodes of the curse, the most important thing is , If activated, it can quickly cast a large-scale super strong iron curse shield, enveloping the entire Hogwarts and its surroundings... Please go through the city gate quickly, don’t worry, you will soon Arrived at school."
　　 After passing the city wall, the little wizards found themselves in an urn city.
The walls on the left and right sides of the inner city wall in Urn City are inlaid with black and shiny dark wooden boards. A row of gilded fireplaces are embedded in the wooden boards. Every few seconds, some wizards suddenly emerge from a certain fireplace on the left. With a soft pop, some black smoke appeared out of thin air. Some wizards came to this place with some very young wizards in their apparitions. They carefully cleaned the ashes on the children and slapped them. The back makes the children who are a little dizzy and follow the manifestation better.
　　 And in front of the fireplace on the right, there are some employees wearing umbrella uniforms, and they began to guide the wizards to orderly transport through the fireplace through the Floo powder, and divert the students at the front, making the whole scene very fast and orderly.
"The range of banning apparitions has really been so large? But many of those children have not used Floo powder. Isn't it dangerous to use a fireplace?" Neville saw the cute, puffy faces of those little wizards , He couldn't help rubbing his fingers and said worriedly.
"Yeah! Many kids look too young..." Harry nodded in agreement. He remembered that he had pronounced the wrong place name the first time he used the fireplace. As a result, Floo fans took him to the very dangerous Knockdown Alley. in.
"The Floo net of the fireplace on the right should not be connected to the external range, so don't worry about these children making a mistake, you can't do without this range anyway." Ginny explained with Harry's puzzled eyes~EbookFREE.me~ Didn't Sirius tell you? My dad complained when he was building a new burrow during the holidays, saying that he might have to turn the fireplace more times when he went to work in the future... But the apparition should not be banned in the morning. I did not expect the coverage to be so large this time. "
"If it is not in an extraordinary period, usually only a barrier that prohibits apparitions will be opened near a few schools." The umbrella armed wizard who led them over explained before, "If Hogwarts is too big to be teleported now," It makes us look too Muggles and it’s not good for the economy... In fact, today this is what Principal Harris meant. He doesn’t want to change the tradition of taking the train first when coming to Hogwarts, so the first school day is special. …Of course the elementary and university departments are in a different situation from yours. They are much more convenient...well, kids, it’s your turn. Go ahead."
　　 The group of Gryffindors turned their attention back to the fireplaces. In front of each fireplace, there is an oak barrel with a lot of shiny Floo powder inside.
　　 "Even though one scoop is two sico..." Ron, who was in the front line, was a little dumbfounded, "But how many spoons you get in such a bucket... are all free?"
"Yes, the fireplace is free. The red-haired gentleman, please hurry up..." the umbrella employee urged Ron, "You should go to Hogwarts Station." He had already said this. I don't know how many times, my voice is a little hoarse.
"The feeling of Floo fans is not very good..." Ron, who was urged to mutter, picked up a pinch of sparkling powder and threw it into the flame. With a cry, the fire turned green, the flame rose, and he went straight into the fire. Here, he said the address as clearly as possible, "Hogwarts Station." In an instant, his figure disappeared without a trace.